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Business News

Announcement

We are announcing the retirement of the Business News data source, effective immediately, as part of our ongoing effort to streamline and modernize our Grafana plugin ecosystem. To ensure uninterrupted access to news and data feeds, we strongly recommend migrating to the Infinity data source, a robust and versatile replacement designed to meet your monitoring and visualization needs.

Why This Change?​

The retirement aligns with industry trends toward more integrated and scalable data solutions, addressing the complexities of managing fragmented data sources. The Infinity data source offers enhanced flexibility, supporting a wide range of data formats and real-time updates, making it an ideal choice for business analytics and dashboards.

The Business News data source is a plugin for Grafana that retrieves RSS and Atom feeds and allows visualizing them using Business Text and other panels.

Requirements​

  • Business News data source 4.X requires Grafana 10.1 or Grafana 11.
  • RSS/Atom data source 3.X requires Grafana 9 or Grafana 10.
  • RSS/Atom data source 2.X requires Grafana 8.5 or Grafana 9.
  • RSS/Atom data source 1.X requires Grafana 8.

Getting Started​

The Business News data source can be installed from the Grafana Catalog or utilizing the Grafana command line tool.

Install Business Suite plugins in Cloud, OSS, Enterprise. Getting started with the Business Suite.

For the latter, please use the following command.

grafana cli plugins install volkovlabs-rss-datasource

Highlights​

  • Supports RSS 2.0, RSS 1.0 and Atom.
  • Works with Dynamic Text visualization panel.
  • Returns Channel (Feed) data, Items (Entries) or both as separate data frames.
  • Extract and parse as additional fields:
    • Image from Meta.
    • H4 and Image from the Encoded content.
    • Media:Group for YouTube.
  • Filter items/entries based on the selected Time Range.
  • Allows specifying Query parameters with dashboard variables.

Below is the example where the dashboard combines five Business News data sources each paired with the Business Text panel. The Business Variable panel (#1) provides a switch between Volkov Labs, Grafana and News channel.

The Business News data source allows to visualize RSS and Atom feeds on Grafana dashboard.
The Business News data source allows to visualize RSS and Atom feeds on Grafana dashboard.

Tutorial​

This is a very detailed tutorial in which Daria explains what RSS and Atom format is and how to find appropriate links for further usage. She then demonstrates how to install and configure the Business News data source on your Grafana dashboard. She touches upon Grafana's transformations to show little data transformation tricks.

The tutorial was created two years ago, and since then, we significantly improved the Business News data source. The new video is on our road map.

News feed tutorial for Grafana Dashboard.

Documentation​

SectionDescription
Business TextDemonstrates how to display feed using Business Text panel.
ProvisioningDemonstrates how to automatically provision the Data Source.
Release NotesStay up to date with the latest features and updates.

License​

Apache License Version 2.0, see LICENSE.

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